From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
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Applying layer effects and styles - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: The Basics
Applying layer effects and styles
- [Instructor] Photoshop has a number of built-in non-destructive effects like the drop shadow which can be applied to a variety of different kinds of layers. In this example, I have a photograph but it's actually on a transparent background. And just to show that, I'm going to go under my Preferences here, to Transparency and Gamut, and if I toggle on the Grid Size to Small, we can see that, indeed, the photographs is smaller than the entire canvas size and this white area here isn't really white, it's actually transparent. But I will leave these off for now so I'm going to click on Cancel so that we see it as if it's against white. The first thing I want to do is I want to add a drop shadow to the photograph. So at the bottom of the Layers panel, there's an Effects icon. I'm going to select the Drop Shadow from the list. And to make sure that we're all starting with the same settings, I'm going to click the Reset…
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